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Clive Palmer to launch challenge to Western Australia Senate recount
BIANCA HALL 7:36pm West Australian voters are poised to go back to the polls, with mining magnate Clive Palmer confirming he will launch a challenge to the Senate recount with the High Court.
WA poised to go back to the polls
BIANCA HALL 5:54pm West Australian voters are poised to go back to the polls, after the Australian Electoral Commission declared the Australian Sports Party's Wayne Dropulich and the Greens' Scott Ludlam had won the final Senate positions in a recount on Saturday – despite the fact 1375 votes remain missing.
The business of being Clive
RORY CALLINAN The potential for conflicts of interest for this new MP is high.
MP Palmer to lay his interests bare
Rory Callinan and Jonathan Swan Wealthy businessman Clive Palmer will be forced to disclose a minefield of potential conflicts of interests in his role as a federal MP, with directorships of no fewer than 74 private companies involved in aviation, sport, mining, shipping, real estate and tourism.
Minister under pressure as 457 visa numbers fall
CLAY LUCAS Applications by overseas citizens for 457 visas have plummeted since the former Gillard government introduced a crackdown on the controversial work permits, figures from a Department of Immigration report show.
Labor offers ultimatum over carbon tax
MARK KENNY Australian businesses and households face months of uncertainty over energy pricing after the Labor opposition resolved on Friday to stick with the unpopular carbon tax unless the government adopts its policy of an emissions trading scheme.
From billionaire to MP: Palmer to disclose riches
Rory Callinan, Jonathan Swan Wealthy businessman Clive Palmer will be forced to disclose a minefield of potential conflicts of interests in his new role as a federal MP, with directorships of no fewer than 74 private companies involved in aviation, sport, mining, shipping, real estate and tourism.
We won't be bullied: ALP stands by its climate view
MARK KENNY Australian businesses and households face months of uncertainty over energy pricing after the federal opposition resolved on Friday to stick with the unpopular carbon tax unless the government adopts its policy of an emissions trading scheme.
Australia defeating people smugglers says Scott Morrison
Kim Arlington Australia was gaining the upper hand on people smugglers, with the number of boat arrivals "significantly below trends and expectations", Immigration Minister Scott Morrison says.
Bill Shorten backs scrapping of carbon tax, on condition of replacement ETS
JONATHAN SWAN Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has unveiled Labor's position on climate change, saying he will offer to "terminate" the carbon tax on the condition that Tony Abbott introduces an emissions trading scheme.
Australian ambassador summoned by Indonesia over embassy spy claims
Judith Ireland and Michael Bachelard Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa has said that reports the Australian embassy was used to spy on Indonesia were "not cricket," after Australia's ambassador to Indonesia was summonsed by the Indonesian foreign affairs department.
Greens force Labor to decide on temporary protection visas
DAVID WROE The Greens will move to block the Abbott government's effort to reintroduce temporary protection visas for refugees, forcing Labor to pick a side as it rakes over the coals of its election loss.
Young MP Wyatt Roy tells Clive Palmer to grow up
JONATHAN SWAN Australia's youngest MP, Wyatt Roy, has offered some harsh advice to Clive Palmer, saying the newly elected member for Fairfax was “clown-like” and should consider changing his attitude.
Tony Abbott rules out change to Huawei ban
JUDITH IRELAND Prime Minister Tony Abbott has stamped out speculation that Huawei might be allowed to participate in the National Broadband Network, saying the Coalition has no intention of lifting the government's block on the Chinese company.
Listening post revealed on Cocos Islands
Philip Dorling Australia's electronic spy agency is intercepting Indonesian naval and military communications through secret radio listening post.
Ministers see no future for Holden
MARK KENNY Holden will be gone from Australia in three or four years no matter what Canberra does to prop it up, senior ministers in the Abbott government now believe.
Missing votes could force WA to return to polls
DAN HARRISON Entire state could be heading back to the polls in what could prove an early test of the Abbott government's popularity.
Ministers see no future for Holden
MARK KENNY Holden will be gone from Australia in three or four years no matter what Canberra does to prop it up, senior ministers in the Abbott government now believe.
Safe assumption my phone was tapped: Carr
Bob Carr says while he was foreign minister it was a ''safe assumption'' to operate as though his phone calls were being monitored.
Indonesia demands Australian ambassador explain reports of spying from embassy in Jakarta
MICHAEL BACHELARD Indonesia's foreign ministry has called in Australia’s ambassador and issued a “strong demand” that he immediately explain the news that the Australian embassy in Jakarta was used as a post to spy on Indonesia.
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